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"BREA, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 – American Suzuki Motor Corporation (“ASMC” or “the Company”), the sole distributor in the continental United States of Suzuki Motor Corporation (“SMC”) automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and marine outboard engines, today announced that it plans to realign its business to focus on the longterm growth of its Motorcycles/ATV and Marine divisions…"

Chapter 11 is just for "restructuring", it will allow them to ditch a bunch of overhead.

...and rework their debt so they can hopefully be competitive.

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I go Beltway blitzin' on my mad mofo musclebike WFO. Its a true choice, a god-like experience if you will. The thought that I could buy the farm in a spectacular fireball...................well, that gives me a stiffie! Tesco Vee/The Meatmen

They are giving up entirely on cars and trucks. I'd guess they just don't want the automotive division to bring down the entire company. It's not like if their other ventures were doing so good, they can't afford to keep that division alive.

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